NFL sets the lineup for its three 2014 London games

The NFL will expand to three London games for 2014, and the six teams who’ll play there have been determined.

The league already had announced that the Jaguars, Falcons, and Raiders will host games in London. They’ll face the Cowboys, Lions, and Dolphins, respectively.

Commissioner Roger Goodell announced the Cowboys-Jaguars, Lions-Falcons, and Dolphins-Raiders matchups during a media event in London, where the Jaguars will host the 49ers on Sunday.

The dates have not been determined, but the time difference means that the games will be played at 1:00 p.m. ET on a Sunday. Also, look for the three games to be played before Thanksgiving, since the NFL prefers having no bye weeks after the fourth Thursday in November. Every team that plays in London gets a bye the following weekend.

For four of the teams, it’ll be their first regular-season game in London. The Dolphins played the Giants there in 2007. The Jaguars are playing one game per year in London for the next four seasons, starting Sunday.

The NFL is going to over saturate the market. It’s well documented that Europe likes soccer over football. Once a year could be special and something different. The more they do it the less they’ll want to see it.

The NFL should move all games to London. They could play 7 days a week with double headers and then triple headers on saturday and sunday. That would make the NFL even more popular over seas. Maybe they could have a few games in Bejing to spark even more interest? The NFL really knows what they are doing……. If what they are attempting to do is destroy the brand in the US.

And as someone above mentioned, put a game in Mexico City instead. It will put less stress on the teams and there is a huge contigent of fans down there. Last time they played it drew well over 100,000 spectators.

Oh I forgot this about money and Goodell’s selfish desire for an audacious legacy.

well if the raiders expect me to buy season tickets again at $100 bucks a game for each ticket, and still want me to buy two pre-season games at full pop only to get seven home games , thats seems out of whack…..Maybe I’ll just use that money to go to London and watch their “home” game next year.

When will the English Premier League start playing real games in the U.S. Seems only fair. I’m a fan of N. London’s Tottenham Hotspur and rumors are they could be sharing their future new stadium with a permanent NFL team. That’s the word.

Greed. Greed. And more greed. When will US cities tell Roger and the owners to piss off when the NFL comes asking for a new stadiums to be built at tax-payer expense? Who’s replacing the revenue for those that would have worked each of thee Sundays in Jacksonville, Atlanta, and Oakland these days? Where do those cities recoop their tax money?

What is the leagues massive fascination with London? Why not have teams play in other major markets?Maybe a game in Mexico City again? What about a game in China? Japan? If the real goal was to spread the game all over the world, move these game around a little bit!

Err no. Unlike most US games (it seems) most of the fans live nowhere near the stadium, in fact probably nowhere near London. The game last month ended at 9.30pm I didn’t get home until 12.40am.
And I live 50 miles away from London.
A very small number of people (out of the 83,500 people there) gets to the game by car.

The entire “lets get Europe involved” is a bunch of crap! Hate the whole idea.
Fans which have only 8 (2 games of exhibition excluded) good days of being able to watch their Team in their venue are totally screwed.
We all know how important home games are to the structure of making the playoffs which, now Teams are placed in a slight disadvantage to the rest of the League who actually get that one more Home game.

Been following the NFL for 25 years here in the UK. The problem is the older fans all have their teams and will stick with them no matter what, new fans obviously like the Patriots (bandwagon fans !).

‘If’ the Jags came over and was the new London team i cant see where the fans will come from. 99% of people already have an NFL team, i can watch the Raiders live on NFL Gamepass every sunday, i’m not going to bother watching the ‘London Jaguars’ play 250 miles away in a game i dont care for and miss the Raiders play.

Having the odd regular season game here is good, but dont move a team here.